lookforpattern
Accumulate. Revise. Contain.
As a maker, I am drawn to reclaiming materials that are often overlooked or considered waste: paper, plastic, discarded fabric. I come to these materials through concrete interactions: collecting shopping bags, saving packing plastics, being gifted newspaper plastic bags, saving fruit mesh bags after use, etc. These materials are part of the everyday. These materials are invitations to think through interactions. I contrast this process of emergent order with the process of quilting, which to me is a making process that finds an internal order through repetition. By turning to quilting and collage, it helps me construct languages through more active methods of care and listening to the materials. Each of these processes are dependent on time and allow for playful outcomes. Both are processes that work with fragments and the stories woven into the materials at hand. Working with fragments–like adding to a collaged image–takes time, requires patience and care with the material and is about the relationship that grows over time as the quilt is pieced and changes in the making.
This practice is a record of place, a record of being present, a record of intuitive and emergent order. This is a record of threading together connections.
